He Must Get the Last Hit!

He Had to Finish Him Off! Inside the courtyard.

After Lin Tian sensed how powerful this newly born force inside his body was, he grew even more curious about that force.

But at that moment, he knew this was not the time to study such things.

The next moment, Lin Tian entered a side courtyard within the Inner Academy.

This place was generally where his master received guests.

The side courtyard was spacious and tidy.

And at this moment, most of the disciples in the Martial Academy were now gathered in this Inner Academy.

It was only because, in this side courtyard, a rather grand banquet was being arranged.

The reason for holding this banquet was naturally very simple.

Naturally, it had to do with Zhao Cang taking Xiao Tian as his final disciple yesterday.

Zhao Cang had felt that yesterday's apprenticeship ceremony had been too hasty and not grand enough.

So Zhao Cang had arranged an additional banquet for Xiao Tian.

This showed just how much Zhao Cang valued Xiao Tian, this genius.

However, Lin Tian had spent the entire day practicing his boxing today.

So he had not paid too much attention to it.

At this moment, in the side courtyard, the disciples were all busy.

And Lin Tian's figure quickly arrived among them as well.

However, he had not come to help.

He had come this time because he wanted to ask Zhao Cang for leave, wanting to depart early.

Within the Martial Academy, disciples like them had to practice their boxing within the prescribed time.

Every time they left early, they had to inform Zhao Cang, this master of theirs.

Lin Tian soon came before Zhao Cang and said, "This disciple pays respects to Master."

Seeing Lin Tian arrive, Zhao Cang was somewhat surprised, then said, "What did you come to see me for?"

"Replying to Master, this disciple wishes to ask for leave today and depart early."

"Oh?"

Zhao Cang looked at Lin Tian before him in some puzzlement.

But immediately afterward, he thought of it.

Perhaps this had something to do with Xiao Tian.

After all, the two of them could practically be considered to have entered the sect at the same time.

Yet now their fates were as different as heaven and earth.

Now that the other party wanted to leave, in all likelihood, it was that young man's temperament acting up.

He was afraid he would be discussed by his fellow disciples.

Sigh, this kind of temperament, truly...

At that moment, Zhao Cang once again felt a slight disappointment toward Lin Tian before him.

After all, he had practiced martial arts for many years.

He knew deeply that if one wanted to become strong, what limited one was not only bone quality, aptitude, resources, and the like.

More important still was that tenacious, unyielding state of mind that was not disturbed by external things.

Yet Lin Tian before him was...

Sigh, forget it. In the end, he is merely someone with Inferior Bone Quality.

Immediately, Zhao Cang quickly agreed. "Mm, I understand. Go."

After Lin Tian received his reply, he quickly turned and left.

Everyone watched Lin Tian quickly enter before them, then quickly leave again.

Their eyes were filled with confusion.

"He... what is he here for? Why is he walking back and forth?"

"Heh, I know, I know. When he was talking to Master just now, I was standing off to the side listening."

"Lin Tian came to ask for leave. He wants to leave early."

"What? Leave early?"

When everyone heard this, they were immediately stunned.

But right after that, they more or less guessed the reason.

After all, it was not hard to connect the dots.

Although Lin Tian's aptitude was poor, they could all see how diligent he was.

A person who came earliest every day and left latest...

Yet now he was asking for leave and leaving early, and on this day of all days.

If there was nothing written between the lines here, if there were no personal grudges involved, they would never believe it.

"Heh, I reckon he simply doesn't have the face to attend Senior Brother Xiao Tian's banquet. After all, the two of them really can't be compared."

"Hmph, what do you mean, can't be compared? Does Lin Tian really think he's a dish worth serving?"

"Why doesn't he look in a mirror? With Inferior Bone Quality, he actually dares to put himself beside a heaven's chosen like Senior Brother Xiao Tian and compare?"

"He truly doesn't know how high the sky is or how deep the earth runs."

After Lin Tian left the Martial Academy, he headed straight in a certain direction.

As for what happened in the Martial Academy after he left, he did not care at all.

Very soon, Lin Tian arrived beside a small path and crouched down to keep watch.

This small path was the route Zhuang Qiang and the others had taken when they left yesterday.

And when the other party had left, he had even looked around in all directions.

Before leaving, he had also covered this place up a little.

Presumably, this was their route of action.

Night fell.

The sky dimmed.

Under the moonlight, the whole small path became somewhat cold and murky.

With this place being remote as well, the whole area gave off an odd, secluded silence.

And at this moment, in the grass, Lin Tian had also hidden himself away, quietly waiting for those people to arrive.

But as time passed, even Lin Tian began to feel uncertain.

Could it be that those people did not pass through this place?

But just then, the faint glow of three lanterns came from afar.

Lin Tian immediately saw Zhuang Qiang's short, squat build.

They were here.

But it seemed there was not only one person beside him?

Beside him were also the two tall martial practitioners from last night?

Seeing this scene, Lin Tian's gaze narrowed slightly.

Three people...

That was somewhat difficult to handle.

If he wanted what he was doing right now to remain unknown to anyone, especially the Shark Gang, then he had to pull the weeds out by the roots.

In that case, he would have to kill all three of the men who had come this way.

In the distance, the three men directly approached.

"Hurry up! Don't let those grandsons from the Black Axe Gang see us. Remember, once we grab that little lady from the Lin Family, we leave!"

"Heh, even just thinking about that little chick's figure right now gets me so hot I can hardly stand it!"

"I've been stifled these past few days, pressed down by that Black Axe Gang. Tonight, I'm damn well going to vent properly, hehe."

"Once I've had my fill of her, I'll sell her straight to Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion and leave."

"With looks like hers, she's got to be worth at least fifty or sixty taels of silver, heh."

As the three of them drew closer, Zhuang Qiang's lecherous face also appeared in Lin Tian's field of vision.

Lin Tian's position in the grass was excellent.

On top of that, the daylight was dim.

Even when the three of them had already walked right in front of Lin Tian, none of them discovered him.

And as the two entered Lin Tian's attack range, the Bright Force inside Lin Tian's body gathered without cease.

The next instant, Lin Tian suddenly charged out!

The perfected-level Mountain-Shaking Fist smashed straight into the head of the martial practitioner closest to him.

One punch swung out.

A crack of splitting bone rang out at once.

A great amount of fresh blood gushed from his temple.

That burly man immediately collapsed to the ground and did not rise.

This scene happened far too quickly.

Zhuang Qiang and the other martial practitioner had not even reacted to what had happened before that man fell.

But the very moment Zhuang Qiang turned around, a heavy punch immediately smashed into his throat.

Zhuang Qiang instantly spat blood and was sent flying backward, crashing to the ground.

Seeing this, the martial practitioner at the side finally reacted as well.

But unfortunately, it was already too late.

The perfected-level Mountain-Shaking Fist had long since brought Lin Tian's control over power to an entirely new realm.

His fist technique was already incomparably smooth between release and withdrawal.

After one punch blasted Zhuang Qiang away, a fist carrying the power of Bright Force had already smashed into that man's face.

Under the powerful impact of Bright Force, a sound of bones shattering also came from that man's face.

His eyes instantly became completely bloodshot, as if they were about to pop out entirely.

The next instant, the other party also collapsed straight to the ground, his life gone.

After finishing all this, Lin Tian did not hesitate at all and once again ran in the direction where Zhuang Qiang had flown just now.

He knew that in his urgency, he had not had time to circulate his force in that previous strike.

Although that man—Zhuang Qiang—was very likely not dead yet.

However, only after arriving there did he realize he had overthought it.

That punch of his just now had already broken Zhuang Qiang's spine.

The other party was dead beyond any chance of living again.

But even so, Lin Tian still brought his foot down viciously on the position of the other party's heart in his chest cavity.

After thinking about it, he had heard that some people's hearts might appear on the right side?

Immediately, he raised his foot and stomped down viciously again.

Only after the chest had been completely crushed and caved in

did he feel slightly satisfied.

The other two martial practitioners were treated the same way by him.

Looking at the three men's completely collapsed chest cavities, Lin Tian immediately began looting the valuables on them.

This time, Lin Tian looted a full thirty taels or so of broken silver in total!

Looking at the broken silver in his hand, Lin Tian hesitated no longer and immediately swam away from this place through the riverway.